<![CDATA[Multiple handles for Activity Intents]]>Hi @benpate@mastodon.social I've got a question about Activity Intents!

I'm implementing it now (as you noticed) and have run into an interesting issue. The wording of 3b86 suggests that the intents are distinct between users. That is, the end user inputs their handle, the handle is queried via webfinger, and supported Intents are returned.

However, the intents themselves don't really distinguish between users.

So I could have a localStorage session with multiple handles registered (e.g. julian@activitypub.space, nodebb@fosstodon.org), etc. β€” this works fine.

But if I had two handles with the same domain, alice@example.social and bob@example.social, then my intents can't be targeted, can they... I just fire off the request (or rather, I have the end user's browser navigate) to the intent URL and whatever account is logged in will be the actor.

Did I miss something, or was there a way to distinguish actors in Activity Intents?

P.S. I find it highly amusing that you had to click through to activitypub.space to read my whole post, but because I don't support Activity Intents yet, you can't reply properly <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://activitypub.space/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f923.png?v=8bcefe1b72a" title="🀣" />

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/topic/902fcaef-1c77-49b7-b08a-0a2392f2562c/multiple-handles-for-activity-intentsRSS for NodeSun, 17 May 2026 14:28:04 GMTThu, 14 May 2026 18:05:01 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Multiple handles for Activity Intents on Sun, 17 May 2026 13:15:47 GMT]]>@julian @benpate will fix it tomorrow! 🫣

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/pfefferle/statuses/116590100294804760https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/pfefferle/statuses/116590100294804760Sun, 17 May 2026 13:15:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Multiple handles for Activity Intents on Sun, 17 May 2026 13:10:15 GMT]]>@julian @benpate 😱

I think I broke something!?

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/pfefferle/statuses/116590078529337716https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/pfefferle/statuses/116590078529337716Sun, 17 May 2026 13:10:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Multiple handles for Activity Intents on Sun, 17 May 2026 09:16:08 GMT]]>@julian @benpate there is also a big "follow" button at the top of the site: https://activitypub.blog/

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/pfefferle/statuses/116589158004833396https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/pfefferle/statuses/116589158004833396Sun, 17 May 2026 09:16:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Multiple handles for Activity Intents on Sun, 17 May 2026 09:15:02 GMT]]>@julian @benpate sure! check out our "official" blog: https://activitypub.blog/2026/05/05/radical-speed-month-the-reader-meets-the-fediverse/#activitypub-reactions-block-3

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/pfefferle/statuses/116589153670580153https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/pfefferle/statuses/116589153670580153Sun, 17 May 2026 09:15:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Multiple handles for Activity Intents on Sat, 16 May 2026 23:58:22 GMT]]>@julian You can certainly use the intent buttons on Bandwagon and the Qwertylicious demo site. They're actually two different implementations, so it might be valid to try both of them.

I'm pretty sure that @pfefferle has implemented some buttons in the WordPress plugin - Matthias, do you have a demo site we can test with?

And, I know Mastodon's Activity Intent work has landed, but I'm not familiar enough with their buttons to say which is being powered by Activity Intents, or how.

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benpate/statuses/116586964725690085https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benpate/statuses/116586964725690085Sat, 16 May 2026 23:58:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Multiple handles for Activity Intents on Sat, 16 May 2026 23:35:10 GMT]]>@julian I can do that. Both terms *are* in the Activity Vocabulary, so we're well within the spec to include them here. But yeah, it would be good to include a note that points to the FEPs where they're really defined.

Ok. More to do... πŸ˜…

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benpate/statuses/116586873515776574https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benpate/statuses/116586873515776574Sat, 16 May 2026 23:35:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Multiple handles for Activity Intents on Sat, 16 May 2026 19:27:36 GMT]]>@julian

That makes sense. I’ve been building out contexts for conversations, so it’s top of mind for me. But it makes sense that audience and inReplyTo might be enough. If the context is missing, I’d probably just fill in the context from the parent anyway.

]]>https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benpate/statuses/116585900079806740https://bb.devnull.land/post/https://mastodon.social/users/benpate/statuses/116585900079806740Sat, 16 May 2026 19:27:36 GMT